{"id":834,"date":"2007-03-13T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-13T03:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=834"},"modified":"2007-03-13T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2007-03-13T03:05:00","slug":"prince-charles-thatch-and-the-collapse-of-civilization","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=834","title":{"rendered":"Prince Charles, thatch, and the collapse of civilization"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Prince of Wales<\/a> recently was quoted as saying McDonald’s restaurants “should be banned<\/a>” (in the United Arab Emirates, if not the UK).<\/p>\n

What do we call that, “nutritional mercantilism<\/a>“?<\/p>\n

Although I admire him for his environmental work and his line of organic foods, I laughed pretty hard at Steve Stirling’s fictionalized version of the prince in A Meeting at Corvallis<\/em>, the final book of his post-Collapse trilogy<\/a>. (Yes, I know, trilogies . . .<\/a> )<\/p>\n

I have mentioned Stirling’s fairly realistic Wiccan characters<\/a>, but the third book offers an England where now-King Charles rules, and he has imposed his aesthetic taste on as much of the nation as he controls. Houses must have thatched roofs, while farmers and laborers must wear the old cotton smock<\/a> when they work outdoors. “De national dress, mon,” says a Jamaican immigrant turned farmer.<\/p>\n

Update: Alice Thomson calls the prince a true prophet<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Prince of Wales recently was quoted as saying McDonald’s restaurants “should be banned” (in the United Arab Emirates, if not the UK). What do we call that, “nutritional mercantilism“? Although I admire him for his environmental work and his line of organic foods, I laughed pretty hard at Steve Stirling’s fictionalized version of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,6,12],"class_list":["post-834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-england","tag-wicca","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6xQTg-ds","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13362,"url":"https:\/\/blog.chasclifton.com\/?p=13362","url_meta":{"origin":834,"position":0},"title":"Yet It’s Not October: Paganism in the News (Part 1)","author":"Chas S. 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